:;.;.; 



NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



provided with bracts, the divisions bearing small groups of flowers, 

 frequently cymes with articulate pedicels. 



Ochna leucopklceos. 



Fig. 381. 

 Longitudinal section of flower. 



Fig. 382. 

 Gynseceuin and stamen (^). 



In several species of Ouratea, the flowers are here and there 

 tetramerous and the carpels four to six in number. In others the 

 ovule is surmounted at the chalaza by an arillate dilatation taking 



Ochna mozambicetisis. 



Fig. 383. 

 Fruit. 



Fig. 384. 



Longitudinal section of fruit. 



the form of a hook. 1 This fact is especially noticeable in certain 

 Asiatic and particularly in Oceanian species, having axillary fasci- 

 culate flowers, and of which the genus Brackenridgea has been made. 2 



1 We have already stated this fact in certain 2 A. Gray, Unit.- St. Expl. Exp., Bot., i. 



African species, as O. Duparqtietiana (Oomphia 361, t. 42. — B. H., Gen., 318, [)93, n. 3.-*— F. 



Duparquetiana H. Bn., in Adansonia, ix. Mttell., Tragm, Phyt. Austral., v. 29. — Walp., 



77). Ann,, iv. 121. 



